Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology 1st Edition by Patrick Vinton Kirch (PDF)

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The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly develop the theoretical underpinnings, as well as the particular methods, for such a historical anthropology. Drawing upon and integrating the approaches of archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. They illustrate their approach through meticulous application to the history of the Polynesian cultures, and for the first time reconstruct in extensive detail the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished in the Polynesian homeland – Hawaiki – some 2,500 years ago. Of great significance for Oceanic studies, Kirch and Green’s book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian, linguist, or cultural historian concerned with the theory and method of long-term history.

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⭐I am torn between really liking and loving this book and would have much preferred to be able to state that it is excellent. However, it is not always an easy book to read, especially for the non-linguist as much of the argument is couched in linguistics but it is still the best book that I have read describing/identifying the Polynesians as they began to spread across the Pacific and it certainly forced me to clarify my own ideas on this topic. Having said that it probably while it may be among the last books one reads directly on this topic it probably should not be the first and it does leave some fascinating questions unanswered such as why they dropped the pottery traditions of the Lapita.

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